"Different Sim detected" after Ultrasn0w

I have read and read around the net and seem to have no resolution to this.

Running 3.0 (7A341) on o2 and phone is jailbreaked. But after Ultrasnow installed it shows Vodafone but says 'different Sim detected. Connect to Itunes". Does anyone have a straight forward resolution for this. Before I jailbreaked I restored my phone from back up. I am hearing that perhaps I should have created it as a new phone.

Happy to do that BUT if I restore now, I will get 3.1 and that is NOT GOOD.

So does anyone a) now how to get rid of different Sim detected without restore or b) how I how I restore to 3.0 again so I can set up a new phone.

I have read and read around the net and seem to have no resolution to this.

Running 3.0 (7A341) on o2 and phone is jailbreaked. But after Ultrasnow installed it shows Vodafone but says 'different Sim detected. Connect to Itunes". Does anyone have a straight forward resolution for this. Before I jailbreaked I restored my phone from back up. I am hearing that perhaps I should have created it as a new phone.

Happy to do that BUT if I restore now, I will get 3.1 and that is NOT GOOD.

So does anyone a) now how to get rid of different Sim detected without restore or b) how I how I restore to 3.0 again so I can set up a new phone.

Thank you kindly...

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OK, if all you thousand of iphone users dont know the resolution to the above perhaps you can help with the next issue...

I downloaded 3.0 from iclarified to my desktop. It was a .zip so I renamed it .IPSW. I assume that's correct. Now, in itunes 8.2 I press shift and restore and locate the IPSW on my desktop. I then get 'The iphone could not be restored because the firmware file is not compatible".

What am I doing wrong now!!! I am currently running 3.0 so just restoring to the same firmware.

This is all becuase I get wrong different simm detected after Ultrasn0w (which I never got before).

One final thought. If you activated to O2 before running RedSn0w, then I think RedSn0w can have a problem overwriting the phone's activation records. I definitely had that problem with my 2G in the past, and my solution was to restore to an unactivated state.

However, since that would take you to 3.1, you can't do that. It may be worth trying this: go into the phone's file system and find the "activation pair" records. Delete them and run RedSn0w again. That's all I can think of to try now, but I have not done it so I do not know what the effect would be. I do know that RedSn0w wrote a new activation pair on my 2G once it was unactivated, but could not when it was already activated. I guess if the worst comes to the worst, you just have to put it in the drawer and use a different phone till the Dev Team gives us the go ahead for Pwnage for the 3GS.

One final thought. If you activated to O2 before running RedSn0w, then I think RedSn0w can have a problem overwriting the phone's activation records. I definitely had that problem with my 2G in the past, and my solution was to restore to an unactivated state.

However, since that would take you to 3.1, you can't do that. It may be worth trying this: go into the phone's file system and find the "activation pair" records. Delete them and run RedSn0w again. That's all I can think of to try now, but I have not done it so I do not know what the effect would be. I do know that RedSn0w wrote a new activation pair on my 2G once it was unactivated, but could not when it was already activated. I guess if the worst comes to the worst, you just have to put it in the drawer and use a different phone till the Dev Team gives us the go ahead for Pwnage for the 3GS.

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Well I did it!!!

Not restore but got rid of different sim detected. I found a post with a different idea and it worked. Run redsnow with the new sim IN!

It then 'activates'. I then unlocked (still with the new Sim in) and hey presto.

Bit of an arse about face way, but it worked

Now when I open Cydia I get 'Unable to Load (timed out)'. Hahahaha....

Verify your Cellar Data Network settings. It might be worth re-entering the APN information and attempting to browse to verify you can. Then if Cydia still doesn't work try Wi-Fi. If not again, well...

Also, I haven't had that problem before. And I Jailbroke with the O2 SIM in as I wanted to legitimately activate. If you have now 'hacktivated' you might end up having problems with push notifications.

Verify your Cellar Data Network settings. It might be worth re-entering the APN information and attempting to browse to verify you can. Then if Cydia still doesn't work try Wi-Fi. If not again, well...

Also, I haven't had that problem before. And I Jailbroke with the O2 SIM in as I wanted to legitimately activate. If you have now 'hacktivated' you might end up having problems with push notifications.

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